Madame Camus at the Piano, by Edgar Degas, 1869. Photo: Creative Commons
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge and editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals (Lund Humphries).
He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and is writing a bi-monthly series of articles in the online magazine Versopolis about stolen masterpieces.
He talks to Kim Hill about the theft and subsequent movements of the 1869 painting Madame Camus at the Piano by Edgar Degas.